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This week at CBPP, we focused on state and federal budgets and taxes and on the economy.

• On state budgets and taxes, Wesley Tharpe underscored how states’ recent tax-cut spree has created big risks...

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This week at CBPP, we focused on the federal budget, health, and the economy. 

• On the federal budget, David Reich highlighted that House appropriations bills for 2024 cut a swath through crucial programs, deviating...

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This week at CBPP, we focused on federal taxes, state budgets and taxes, health, and the economy.

• On federal taxes, Chuck Marr, Kris Cox, and Sarah Calame emphasized that any year-end tax legislation should ...

Policymakers Should Focus on the True Cost of an Item on Corporate Lobby’s Tax Break Wish List

November 30, 2023: This post has been updated. 

Corporate lobbyists are “pleading for extension of three key tax breaks” in a year-end tax package, Bloomberg reports — a tax package that Democrats insist must include...

Pennsylvania Can Show It’s Serious About Ending Corporate Tax Avoidance by Eliminating Domestic Profit-Shifting

It’s well known that wealthy, multinational corporations avoid paying their fair share in state taxes by hiding profits in out-of-state affiliates, often in domestic and foreign tax havens. Pennsylvania legislators are taking steps to shut...

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This week at CBPP, we focused on housing and the economy.

• On housing, Will Fischer outlined the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s expansion of a promising policy to support housing choice, known as small...

HUD Expands Promising Policy to Support Housing Choice

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a notice last week expanding a promising policy that has been found to enable families with housing vouchers to choose to live in a wider range...

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This week at CBPP, we focused on food assistance, housing, and health. 

• On food assistance, Katie Bergh and Lauren Hall warned that the looming WIC funding shortfall would jeopardize access to WIC’s proven...

Food Insecurity Increased in 2022, With Severe Impact on Households With Children and Ongoing Racial Inequities

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual report on food security, showing that 44.2 million people (in 17.0 million households) in the U.S. could not afford enough food to eat at some...

Looming WIC Funding Shortfall Would Jeopardize Access to WIC’s Proven Benefits and Disproportionately Harm Black and Hispanic Families